Dispensary Corner 25 Oct 13
October 25, 2013
This boy is certainly going to get
his daily vegetable allowance.
A thief has returned a 50kg
pumpkin he stole from the home
of nine-year-old Jaiden Newcomer
of central Pennsylvania in the
USA, leaving it along with a note
apologising for the robbery.
The lad had proudly displayed
the gigantic vegetable on his front
porch, after he won the tasty treat
by correctly guessing its weight
during an Oktoberfest celebration
in the town of Windsor.
The note said “I’m really sorry
about taking your pumpkin, it
was wrong of me, you earned the
pumpkin, I didn’t think my actions
through nor realise who they
were affecting”.
Newcomer’s mother told local
the York Dispatch newspaper that
her son was “beside himself” at
the pumpkin’s return.
It’s true - city living can really get
you down.
A survey by the UK’s Office
for National Statistics has found
that the most unhappy places in
Britain are mainly in urban areas
including Islington, North London,
Hyndburn in Lancashire and
Brentwood in Essex.
The report also found happier
people mostly live in the country,
with the top happiness results
in Hampshire, East Devon, West
Somerset and the Orkney Islands
in Scotland.
Interestingly, there was not
a direct correlation between
socioeconomic status and
happiness, with the statisticians
hoping to discover whether
the “sense of community” and
“access to green spaces” in rural
areas makes people happier.
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